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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. T GARNEY COIN DISPLAYER.

No. 484,650. Patented Oct. 18, 1892.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

T. OARNEY.

COIN DISPLAYER.

No. 484,650. Patented Oct. 18, 1892.

\dll Sin UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS OARNEY, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL OASII REGISTER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

COIN-DISPLAYERQ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,650, dated October 18, 1892. 7

Application filed July 12. 1892. $erial No. 439,810. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern: My improved device consists of a suitable Be it known that I, THOIWIAS OARNEY, a citiframe or casing having a receiving mouth or zen of the United States, residing at Dayton, opening into which the coins maybe dropped in the county of Montgomery and State of and a discharging mouth or opening through Ohio, have invented certain new and useful which they may be discharged from the de- 5 5 Improvements in Ooin-Displayers, of which vice into any suitable receptaclein this inthe following isa description, reference being stance into the money-drawer of a cash-reghad to the accompanying drawings, forming ister. Journaled in the casing or frame is a part of this specification. revolving disk provided with holes or rero My invention relates to devices of that class cesses arranged around its periphery and in- 60 which are employed for the purpose of receivtersecting the latter, which holes or recesses ing and temporarily exposing to view the constitute the receptacles for the coins, bevarious coins received by the clerk or cashier ing adapted to receive the coins at the rein an establishment where the devices are ceiving-mouth of the casing and carry them used. Their principal object is to prevent around and deliver them at the discharging- 65 disputes concerning the character or values mouth thereof. These holes or recesses are of coins received from customers, though it covered at one side and, if desired, at both is sometimes desirable for other purposes to sides of the disk by a glass plate or plates, temporarily hold the coins received exposed through which the coins contained in the reto view. The devices may be used either ceptacles may be observed from the exterior. 7o alone or in combination with other contriv- Such glass plate or plates may be secured to ances employed in the handling and disposithe side or sides of the revolving disk or they tion of the cash received. may form a fixed part of the casing. as de- My improved coin-displayer is especially sired, or each separate receptacle may be designed to be usedin connection withacashcovered by its own individual transparent 5 register and to be operated automatically by plate. such machine. In the accompanying draw- In the drawings I have shown the coin-reings I have illustrated it as applied to one of ceptacle as formed of circular holes extendthe well-known forms of cash-registers and aring entirely through the disk and intersecto ranged to co-operate with and be actuated by ing its periphery at such a distance from 80 the sliding money-drawerof such machine,and their centers as to form suitable openings for it will be described, in combination with such the reception and discharge of the coins. I machine, in the following specification. Its have shown the sides of these holes as closed novelty will be herein set forth, and particuby two circular glass plates, secured to the 3 5 larly pointed out in the claims. opposite sides of the disk, so that when the 85 In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective device is used alone the coins in it may be view of a cash-register having my improved observed from either side. I have shown the coin-displayer applied to it; Fig. 2, a vertical revolving disk provided with a ratchet, with section through part of the frame or casing which co-operates a pawl carried by a lever of the coin-displayer and through the drawerwhich projects through the base of the ma- 9:) compartment and drawer of the register, as chine into the drawer-compartment into poindicated by the dotted line 2 2 in Fig. 3; Fig. sition to be engaged and moved by the money- 3, a vertical section through the coin-disdrawer or some part carried thereby, though player and one side of the drawer-compartany other suitable form of connection of the ment and drawer on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, revolving disk,either with the money'drawer 95 and Fig. 4 a side elevation of the coin-receivor any other part of the cash-register which ing disk having the glass plates secured to is moved at each operation of the machine, its sides and provided witha ratchet for to rnmay be employed. ing it. Referring now more particularly to the ac- The same letters of reference are used to companying drawings, it will be seen that [00 indicate identical parts in all the figures. the casing or frame A of the coin-displayer is secured to the top of the drawer-compartment of the cash-register, which has an opening B beneath the displayer for the passage of the coins into the drawer. The casing of the displayer is shown in this instance as formed of two halves, each consisting of an uprlght standard portion, an annular portion for the reception of the revolving disk, and one-half of the receiving mouth or opening in which the coins are deposited. The two halves of the casing are secured together at thelr upper sides by a screw passed through cars on them and at their lower sides by cross-rods A Fast upon a shaft or spindle O, ournaled at its ends in the uprights or standards of the frame, is the revolving disk I), provided with the series of circular holes E, extending through it and intersecting its periphery. This disk has secured upon its opposite sides two circular glass plates F. The peripheries of the disk and these circular plates fit snugly within the annular portion of the casing A, which latter prevents the coinsescaping from the receptacles formed by the holes and the glass plates until the receptacles are brought opposite the discharg- 1ng-mouth of the casing. Fast upon the shaft 0, outside the glass plate upon one side of the disk, is a ratchet G, with which co-operates a pawl H, pivoted to the upper end of a lever I, which in turn is pivoted near its middle upon a screw-stud J, entering the upright por t1on A of the outer half of the casing. A spring K, connected to the pawl and to the lever I, presses the pawl into engagement with the ratchet, while a spring L, secured to the casingand to the lower end of the lever I, tends to pull the latter forward against a stop-pin M upon the casing. The lower end of the lever 1 extends down through the opening B in the top of the drawer-compartmeut into position to be struck by one of the crosspartitions N of the sliding money-drawer O. This drawer is or may he provided with the usual or any suitable locking device arranged to be automatically released by the operation of any one of the keys of the machine and having behind it a spring which will throw it outward when so released. \Vhen the drawer is closed, the partition N, Fig. 2,will hold the lever I in the position shown by the dotted lines, and when the drawer is released and opened the spring L will pull the lowerend of the lever I forward against the stop M, causing the upper end of the lever to beturned rearward and the pawl H to be lifted and engaged with another tooth of the ratchet G. When the drawer is now pushed inward, its partition N will strike the lower end of the lever I and throw it rearward to the position indicated by the dotted lines,thereby throwing forward its upper end and causing the pawl H to turn the ratchet G and disk D with its attached plates F. A holding-pawl P, engaging the ratchet- G,prevents backward movement of the latter and disk.

From the foregoing description the following explanation of the operation of the device will be clearly understood. \Vhen a coin is received in payment, the clerk will operate the machine to indicate and register the amount of the sale and will drop the coin into the open mouth A of the displayer and will take any change that may be required from the cash-drawer, which has either opened automatically or which he will pull open for that purpose. hen he closes the drawer, the disk D will be turned to carry the receptacle E, into which the coin has been dropped, away from the receiving-mouth of the casing and another receptacle E will be brought into position to receive a coin. At the next operation of the machine the coin deposited will enter this second receptacle E and the closing of the drawer will cause such receptacle to be carried away from the receiving-mouth A and the third receptacle be brought into position to receive a coin. At the two succeeding operations of the machine the third and fourth receptacles E will each receive a coin and be carried around past the receiving-mouth A, while the receptacle E, which received the first coin, will be carried around to the position of the lowermost one in Fig 2 and will drop its coin through the opening B into the money-drawer. At the next operation of the machine the coin contained in the second receptacle E will be dropped into the money-drawer, and so 011 continuously, each coin received being held exposed to view during two succeeding operations of the machine. In this manner a coin received from a customer is carried out of reach of the clerk or cashier as soon as the money-drawer is closed, butis held exposed to view, so that if any question arises as to what the coin was when the clerk hands the customer his change or fails to hand him any the coin will be in view and settle the question.

As stated at the beginning of the specification, the particularconstruction and arrangement of the various parts may be varied without departing from my invention.

So far as I am aware, I am the first in the art to construct a coin-displayer consisting of a frame or casing, a revolving disk or receptacle-frame journaled therein and provided with holes or recesses or othersuitable receptacles for the coins, and a transparent plate or plates for covering said receptacles at either one or both sides of the disk, for the purpose described, and my claims, therefore, are not intended to be restricted beyond the terms in which they are expressed.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim- 1. A coin-displayer consisting of a frame or casing provided with receiving and dischargingopenings, a revolving disk journaled therein and provided with receptacles for the coins, adapted to receive them at the receiving-opening and deliver them at the discharging-opening, and a transparent covering for the receptacles at one side of the disk, through which the coins contained in them may be observed, and means for revolving the disk to bring its coin-receptacles successively to the receiving and discharging openings, substantially as described.

2. A coin-displayer consisting of a frame or casing provided with receiving and discharging openings for the coins, a revolving disk journaled therein and provided With receptacles for the coins, adapted to receive them at the receiving-opening and deliver them at the discharging-opening, and a transparent covering for the receptacles, secured at one side of the disk, through which the coins carried by the latter may be seen, and means for revolving the disk to bring its coin-receptacles successively to the receiving and discharging openings, substantially as described.

3. A coiu-displayer consisting of a frame or casing provided with receiving and discharging openings for the coins, a revolving disk journaled therein and provided with a series of holes or recesses intersecting its periphery and adapted to receive the coins at the receiving-opening and deliver them at the discharging-opening, a transparent covering at one side of said disk, through which the coins carried by it may be seen, and means for revolving the disk to bring its coin-receptacles successively to the receiving and discharging openings, substantially as described.

4. A coin-displayer consisting of a frame or casing provided with receiving and discharging openings, a revolving disk jou rnaled therein and provided with a series of holes intersecting its periphery and adapted to receive the coins at the receiving-opening and deliver them at the discharging opening, and two transparent plates secured upon the opposite sides of the disk,through which the coins carried by the latter may be seen, and means for revolving the disk to bring its coin-receptacle successively to the receiving and discharging openings, substantially as described.

5. The herein-described coin-displayer, consisting of the casing having the receiving and discharging openings, the disk D, journaled therein and provided with the circular openings E, intersecting its periphery and co-opcrating with the receiving and discharging openings, the glass plates F, secured upon opposite sides of the disk D, the ratchet G, applied to the disk, the pawl H, and means for actuating the pawl to turn the ratchet and disk, substantially as described.

6. The combination, with a cash-register provided with a movable money-drawer, of a coin-displayer consisting of a suitable frame or casing provided with receiving and discharging openings, a revolving disk journaled therein and provided with receptacles adapted to receive the coins at the receiving-opening and deliver them at the discharging-opening, and a transparent covering for the receptacles at one side of the disk, through which the coins contained in them may be seen, and connec tions between the movable money-drawer and the revolving disk for turning the latter by the movements of the former, substantially as described.

7. The combination, with acash-registerhaving a backwardly and forwardly sliding money-drawer, of a coin-displayer consisting of a suitable frame or casing provided with receiving and discharging openings, a revolving disk j ournaled therein and provided with receptacles adapted to receive the coins at the receiving-opening and deliver them at the discharging-opening, a transparent covering for the receptacles at one side of the disk, through,

which the coins contained in them may be seen, a ratchet for turning the disk, an actuating-pawl for the ratchet, and a lever co-operating with said pawl and with the sliding money-drawer, substantially as and for the purpose described.

THOMAS OARNEY. Witnesses:

O. A. CRAIGHEAD, F. A. L. SNEOKNER. 

